We've all been there. Finding fault with everything around us, and perhaps picking on one particular irritant that gets us so rattled, tetchy and narked all we can do is invoke "Hell and damnation!" down on all creation - including, of course, ourselves. After all, our lot is so bad it won't make anything much worse.
If you haven't read [[The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson]] to a child yet, there must not be many around for you to borrow to read it to.